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Help - problems with my LCD monitor

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Skrecok

Junior Member
Hi!

I just bought a new 17" LCD monitor from ebay. The monitor itself seems to work just fine, great picture clarity, few missing pixels and all that. But it does have one big problem - it keeps flashing on and off, apparently at random. Sometimes it will stop for a few minutes, sometimes it will flash only once every few minutes or so, and sometimes it just flicks on/off/on/off constantly.

When it does this, the entire screen goes black and the power light goes out. So I'm wondering, could the (seperate) power supply be to blame? Or is it something else that's wrong internally? I hope it isn't anything that will be too expensive to fix, as I just about bankrupted myself buying this thing in the first place.

Thanks for your help,

Melinda
 
Try the monitor on another PC. At least then you can determine if it's the monitor or the computer that's causing the problem. The fact that the power light goes off makes me think that the monitor is where the problem is. On most monitors, the power light will stay on (or at least change from green to amber) when the video signal is lost.

And for future reference, avoid Ebay like the plague.
 
I can't try it on another PC right away, since I only have one and nobody else I know has one.

My old (crt) monitor works just fine on this computer, it's what I'm using right now.

So I think the monitor is the problem. But, since the power supply to it is external, I was wondering if it's the supply, not the monitor itself, which has the problem. If the supply had a short or something similar, wouldn't that make the light go on and off, as well as the monitor too?

Thanks.
 
My LCD's were doing that until I updated my video drivers, so I would try that, or if it started happening after you updated video drivers, try older drivers. I actualy ended up formating and re-installing for another reason, so I am not entierly sure the updated video drivers fixed it. Also install the monitor driver if you have one.
 
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